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Alan Ellaway - An experience via LSD and Joni Mitchell
Identifier
023860
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Joni Mitchell - Blue (1971) [full album]
This Album was So important in my life. The lyrics are sheer poetry and the depth, intimacy and self revealing of the Album are just so incredible. At the time I was a newly emerging gay man, trying to be a hippy (in the not very hippy like weather of England) but I was gamely trying all the new experiences I could. Weed did little for me (munchies and nausea) but I dropped acid and for the first time I heard "I wish I had A river I could Skate Away on" and I was swept up in it and saw things , that were truly psychedelic. After that I listened to the rest of the Album and truly found it a revelation. Over the years I have given it as a gift to several people and all have found it immediately occupies a special place in their life. By far my favorite Joni Album, discovered at the same time as I was discovering the luminous writing in The Journals of Anais Nin.